- Edward Joseph Hansom
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name =Edward Joseph Hansom
nationality =English
birth_date =22 October 1842
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death_date =27 May 1900
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practice_name =Dunn and Hansom
significant_buildings=Downside Abbey transepts
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awards =President of the Northern Architects' AssociationEdward Joseph Hansom (b.
22 October 1842 ; d.27 May 1900 ) was an English Victorian architect who specialised in ecclesiastical buildings inGothic Revival style, including manyRoman Catholic churches.He was the son of
Charles Francis Hansom and the nephew ofJoseph Aloysius Hansom (1803-1882), of an architectural dynasty fromYork . He was articled to his father in Bath in 1859 and was taken into partnership in 1867, when the practice was based inBristol . He moved toNewcastle-upon-Tyne in 1871 to enter into partnership with Archibald Matthias Dunn (1832-1917), practising under the name of Dunn and Hansom.Hansom was admitted ARIBA in 1868 and FRIBA in 1881. He served as President of the Northern Architects' Association in 1889-90 and was the first to represent the region on the RIBA Council.
After a long period of ill-health, Hansom suffered from depression such that he was unable to work and shot himself in the office and died on 27 May 1900.
Notable work includes the transepts, representing the first phase of building, to
Downside Abbey ,Somerset (1882); St Bede's College, Alexandra Park,Manchester ; Our Lady Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Church, North Berwick (1879); St Mary's RC Cathedral, military memorial,Edinburgh (1889); and the baptistery toSt John's Church, Bath (1871).References
*Johnson, Michael A., 'The architecture of Dunn & Hansom' (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: University of Northumbria, MA Dissertation, 2003)
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